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  1. Abstract The territory explored by a random walk is a key property that may be quantified by the number of distinct sites that the random walk visits up to a given time. We introduce a more fundamental quantity, the time τ n required by a random walk to find a site that it never visited previously when the walk has already visited n distinct sites, which encompasses the full dynamics about the visitation statistics. To study it, we develop a theoretical approach that relies on a mapping with a trapping problem, in which the spatial distribution of traps is continuously updated by the random walk itself. Despite the geometrical complexity of the territory explored by a random walk, the distribution of the τ n can be accounted for by simple analytical expressions. Processes as varied as regular diffusion, anomalous diffusion, and diffusion in disordered media and fractals, fall into the same universality classes. 
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